Macrophages: Their role, activation and polarization in pulmonary diseases

S Arora, K Dev, B Agarwal, P Das, MA Syed - Immunobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Macrophages, circulating in the blood or concatenated into different organs and tissues
constitute the first barrier against any disease. They are foremost controllers of both innate …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in myofibroblast biology: paradigms for connective tissue remodeling

B Hinz, SH Phan, VJ Thannickal, M Prunotto… - The American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The discovery of the myofibroblast has opened new perspectives for the comprehension of
the biological mechanisms involved in wound healing and fibrotic diseases. In recent years …

Pulmonary fibrosis: patterns and perpetrators

PW Noble, CE Barkauskas… - The Journal of clinical …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Pulmonary fibrosis occurs in a variety of clinical settings, constitutes a major cause of
morbidity and mortality, and represents an enormous unmet medical need. However, the …

[PDF][PDF] Wnt/β-catenin signaling: a promising new target for fibrosis diseases.

Y Guo, L Xiao, L Sun, F Liu - Physiological research, 2012 - biomed.cas.cz
Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling: a Promising New Target for Fibrosis Diseases Page 1
PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH • ISSN 0862-8408(print) • ISSN 1802-9973(online) © 2012 …

miR-199a-5p Is upregulated during fibrogenic response to tissue injury and mediates TGFbeta-induced lung fibroblast activation by targeting caveolin-1

CL Lino Cardenas, IS Henaoui, E Courcot… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
As miRNAs are associated with normal cellular processes, deregulation of miRNAs is
thought to play a causative role in many complex diseases. Nevertheless, the precise …

miR-21 mediates nickel nanoparticle-induced pulmonary injury and fibrosis

Y Mo, Y Zhang, R Wan, M Jiang, Y Xu, Q Zhang - Nanotoxicology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We and other groups have demonstrated that exposure to nickel nanoparticles (Nano-Ni)
results in severe and persistent lung inflammation and fibrosis, but the underlying …

MicroRNA-153 physiologically inhibits expression of amyloid-β precursor protein in cultured human fetal brain cells and is dysregulated in a subset of Alzheimer …

JM Long, B Ray, DK Lahiri - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012 - ASBMB
Regulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) precursor protein (APP) expression is complex. MicroRNAs
(miRNAs) are expected to participate in the molecular network that controls this process. The …

Epigenetics of dementia: understanding the disease as a transformation rather than a state

B Maloney, DK Lahiri - The Lancet Neurology, 2016 - thelancet.com
Alzheimer's disease and other idiopathic dementias are associated with epigenetic
transformations. These transformations connect the environment and genes to …

MicroRNA-34a regulates cardiac fibrosis after myocardial infarction by targeting Smad4

Y Huang, Y Qi, JQ Du, D Zhang - Expert opinion on therapeutic …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Although few microRNAs (miRNAs) have been involved in the regulation of
post-ischemic cardiac fibrosis, the exact effect and underlying mechanism of miRNAs in …

Role of microRNAs in lung development and pulmonary diseases

R Sessa, A Hata - Pulmonary circulation, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNA which exert post-transcriptional
gene regulation activity by targeting messenger RNAs. miRNAs have been found to be …